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ANKARA, Sept 28 – Turkey may have to build new courthouses to cope with thousands of prosecutions over July’s failed coup, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Wednesday, as the number of arrests reached 32,000. Authorities have detained or sacked people from across local government, the military, the media and the judiciary, and asked the

ANKARA, Aug 10 – The European Union is making serious mistakes in its response to Turkey’s failed coup and is losing support for EU membership from Turks as a result, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. In an interview with the state-run Anadolu agency, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey’s rapprochement with Russia was not meant as

By Nick Tattersall and Alexander Winning ISTANBUL/MOSCOW, Aug 6 – As Turkey‘s relations with Europe and the United States are strained by the fallout from its failed coup, President Tayyip Erdogan travels to Russia on Tuesday to meet Vladimir Putin in a trip he may hope will give the West pause for thought. Turkish officials